Be careful: do not over-write your existing key for your personal account. Instead, when prompted, save the file as I saved the file to Next, login to your second GitHub account, browse to “Account Overview<\/strong>,” and attach the new key, within the “SSH Public Keys<\/strong>” section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Copy and paste the content of the generated ssh file (with extention .pub<\/strong>): <\/p>\n\n\n\n Note<\/strong>: Be sure to give this key a descriptive title, so that you can remember the source of the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note<\/strong>: If you want to automatically start the agent on login, please look at the profile script at the end of this article<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verify, that the key is loaded<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a New SSH Key We need to generate a unique SSH key for our second GitHub account. Be careful: do not over-write your existing key for your personal account. Instead, when prompted, save the file as id_rsa_<account name>. I saved the file to ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder Attach the new Key to your Github Account Next, login to your second GitHub account, browse to “Account Overview,” and attach the new key, within the “SSH Public Keys” section. Copy and paste the content of the generated ssh file (with extention .pub): Note: Be sure to give this key a descriptive title, so that you can remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-git_github"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/github.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/via-internet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}id_rsa_<account name><\/code>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n~\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.via-internet.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ssh_create_id_rsa_file_for_github_authentication-700x280.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAttach the new Key to your Github Account<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
~\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder.pub<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nConfigure you shell environment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Start the ssh-agent, so that we can remember ssh-keys.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
$ eval $(ssh-agent)\nAgent pid 5099<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Now, add the key to the ssh-agent<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
$ ssh-add $HOME\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder\nIdentity added: \/home\/ralphg\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder (\/home\/placeholder\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
$ ssh-add -l\n2048 SHA256:ZOvzhxxxMVxxxOsMxxxm2YxxxHpV4\/eAiFWyKJVRl\/xxxxx \/home\/placeholder\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder (RSA)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Now, configure your github repository<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
$ git remote -v \norigin https:\/\/github.com\/placeholder\/Awesome-Github.git (fetch)\norigin https:\/\/github.com\/placeholder\/Awesome-Github.git (push)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Configure repository to use this ssh-key<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
$ git remote remove origin\n$ git remote add origin git@github.com:placeholder\/Awesome-Github.git\n$ git remote -v\norigin git@github.com:placeholder\/Awesome-Github.git (fetch)\norigin git@github.com:placeholder\/Awesome-Github.git (push)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
$ git push\nfatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch.\nTo push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
$ git push --set-upstream origin master<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The authenticity of host 'github.com (140.82.118.4)' can't be established.\nRSA key fingerprint is SHA256:nThbg6kXUpJWGl7E1IGOCspRomTxdCARLviKw6E5SY8.\nAre you sure you want to continue connecting (yes\/no)? yes\nWarning: Permanently added 'github.com,140.82.118.4' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Counting objects: 5, done.\nDelta compression using up to 8 threads.\nCompressing objects: 100\nWriting objects: 100\nTotal 5 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)\nremote: Resolving deltas: 100\nTo github.com:placeholder\/Awesome-Github.git<\n 1679693..3bbeede master -> master\nBranch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.<<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Configure your repository to use the created ssh-key<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
$ git config core.sshCommand \"ssh -i ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa_placeholder\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Appendix<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Shell profile script for autostart ssh-agent<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
SSH_ENV=\"$HOME\/.ssh\/environment\"\n\nfunction start_agent {\n echo \"Initialising new SSH agent...\"\n \/usr\/bin\/ssh-agent | sed 's\/^echo\/#echo\/' > \"${SSH_ENV}\"\n echo succeeded\n chmod 600 \"${SSH_ENV}\"\n . \"${SSH_ENV}\" > \/dev\/null\n \/usr\/bin\/ssh-add;\n}\n\n# Source SSH settings, if applicable\n\nif [ -f \"${SSH_ENV}\" ]; then\n . \"${SSH_ENV}\" > \/dev\/null\n #ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} doesn't work under cywgin\n ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > \/dev\/null || {\n start_agent;\n }\nelse\n start_agent;\nfi<\/pre>\n\n\n\nScript: create_ssh_keys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/bash\n\nGITHUB_ACCOUNT=\"$1\"\necho ssh-keygen -t rsa -C \"${GITHUB_ACCOUNT}@via-internet.de\" -f id_rsa_${GITHUB_ACCOUNT}<\/pre>\n\n\n\nScript: update_ssh_keys_to_HOME <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/bash\nFLDR_DST=$HOME\/.ssh\n\nfor _FILE in id*\ndo\n echo \"copy $_FILE\"\n FILE_DST=\"${FLDR_DST}\/$(basename $_FILE)\"\n\n chmod 600 $FILE_DST\n cp $_FILE $FLDR_DST\n chmod 400 $FILE_DST\ndone<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"